Luna-Glob

Luna-Glob, Russian unmanned spacecraft that is designed to study the Moon. Luna-Glob (Russian for “Moon-globe”) consists of an orbiter that will circle the Moon, a probe that will land near one of the Moon’s poles, and four penetrators, which contain seismographs, that will embed themselves into the lunar soil. Two of the penetrators will be placed near the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites so that the data can be compared with that from the Apollo missions 43 years earlier. The orbiter will study cosmic rays. It is scheduled for launch around 2016.

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